No matter what app I use now for YouTube, I’m having issues with buffering. Is anyone else experiencing the same thing? Has Google finally found a way to hamper non-Premium users?
double check your resolution settings. if watching on ohone you can probably drop it fown quite a bit. less data coming in means less buffering
They started this months ago. They throttle speeds unless some sort of ad callback happens. I switched to 1080p because its fine. Fuck them
I’d try keeping requests to a minimum, like with putting everything to download and watching those instead (e.g. with yt-dlp or Grayjay’s Watch Later playlist set to auto-download), using RSS on another device/IP (e.g. with a VPS, @birb@rss-parrot.net on Mastodon or a phone/Raspberry Pi on another connection) then forwarding over to your main device, avoiding requesting all subscriptions in a row (e.g. Grayjay’s Subscription tab or having a too aggressive refresh/fetch setting on an RSS reader), rebooting your phone when issues start (if it’s a cache/memory leak issue), and/or using a VPN and changing servers as needed.
every then and now yt changes how their video loader works so everyone has to update their apps, maybe it’s just that
I just used newpipe at the gym for a half hour and didnt experience. Playing some videos now. Maybe regional isp issue?
I’m using a VPN (connected to a Mexican server) and freetube seems to work for me atm.
I’ve had the issue with it not loading videos channels have uploaded on their pages. Had to switch to RSS feed. Local API error, Mexican server for the VPN did not help.
Switching to rss feed worked for a few days when it was announced that was the work around but now for the past week no videos load or will even play no matter what region I set vpn at and I’ve tried many. Freetube for now for me is completely broken.
